the week (a short one, mind you) began with a couple assignments, both of which could be undone by the weather, thursday evening - first was a recreational softball team - the oldest in the league for a forthcoming sunday piece about the decline of people participating in the adult rec leagues - the weather called for storms, which did eventually come, but i was able to get in a half hour's worth of shooting before they called it, which was okay, because i had another assignment to get to anyway - area fire departments participating in a propane fire training....i got to the place where they said the event would be held, but no one was there - perhaps they called it off because of the lightning? but no, turned out they just had the classroom portion of the training somewhere else and just hadn't gotten there yet....even though the lightning had tapered off, it was still raining pretty good, so by the end of it all, i was a pretty drowned rat, but it was actually kind of cool - they started out small - just a little propane grill - then worked their way up to a 40-gallon tank, which i learned is called a "pig" - and which, when on fire, sends flames shooting about 80 feet in the air - "wait til you see this," the fire chief of one dept. told me, "this is gonna be really cool!!" luckily for me, they did this one a few times, so all the guys could get the experience, and i could work on getting better and better angles - the rain actully worked to my advantage, because it gave me a really nice reflective surface in the parking lot pavement, which added to the visual aspect
noticed these guys composing themselves after their turn at battling and shutting off the propane - just liked how their body language mimicked one another
next day was to go to a pool for a story about how people beat the heat....the only problem being that after the previous day's rain, it wasn't quite that hot anymore, and then to make matters more challenging, it poured early that afternoon, so i waited til it cleared to head down, and there was really only 2 moms and their kids there, but i stayed a while and worked it, and i think it will be okay for telling the story....maybe having things less hectic actually made it a little easier
saturday, had "family game day the library" as a stand-alone feature to run whenever - a really beautiful day, and i was a bit skeptical about how many people would actually go sit in the library to play wii on a day like this - guess my thinking was right, cos i got there and there was no one playing, and the librarian seemed pretty skeptical herself as to the turn-out - i took it as a sign that she handed me a pamphlet of events and said, here are some things coming up that people might actually show up to - hmmm, so, instead of sitting there for an hour or so waiting to see if anyone showed (and really, fotos of people playing video games, not too visual even on a good day), i decided to go back to the town i passed thru on the way here and shoot their farmer's market - it goes on every saturday, which at least makes it newsworthy in an informative sense, and they have seminars on herbs and cooking, and gardening, etc, so it just seemed a bit more substantive to highlight as well - so off i went, but it was getting toward the tail-end of the market, so traffic was light, and at least i found these two cousins whose family runs a farm and who decided they wanted to run this stand to make some money, which they have been dutifully putting in the bank as savings - pretty smart kids
not the greatest, but i think better than the alternative at least
took a break, then went in later to shoot the "minor league" regional football team playing their first home game - got a foto of the defense i kind of like, partly cos we rarely shoot defense, but i liked this frame....
then a went looking for a feature - tried to follow these two little girls playing beneath the bleachers, but that wasn't coming together, so i started working something of this little boy and his father in the stands - i did shoot a more standard, easy-read frame, but i think i like this one, or maybe i just like it in the "wish this would work" sense....but regardless, this is the one i'm posting, so you'll just have to take my word for it i s'pose!
after that, back to the office - edit, submit, tone tone tone, then go home!
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